100 Biographies Memoirs To Read Before You Die

Better clear your schedule — and your nightstand. You've got some reading to get through.

Amazon's book editors have released their definitive list of "100 Biographies and Memoirs to Read in a Lifetime." It's a nice, well-rounded selection featuring classics as well as more recent tomes from the likes of Tina Fey and Joan Didion. Unless you just skipped grammar school entirely, you've no doubt read at least one of them already. Go ahead and give yourself a pat on the back for getting a head start.

Lena Dunham's Not That Kind of Girl didn't make the cut, but here's what did.

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Ishmael Beah
A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition, Ernest Hemingway
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, Bill Bryson
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964, William Manchester
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, Jon Meacham
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Kai Bird
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History, Chris Kyle
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, Joseph J. Ellis
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir, Frank McCourt
Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy
Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Vol. 1, Mark Twain
Ball Four: Twentieth Anniversary Edition, Jim Bouton
Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth, Richard Wright
Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life, Steve Martin
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen, Christopher McDougall
Bossypants, Tina Fey
Cash: The Autobiography, Johnny Cash
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman, Robert K. Massie
Chronicles, Bob Dylan
Churchill: A Life, Martin Gilbert
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, Phillip Hoose
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness, William Styron
De Profundis and Other Prison Writings (Penguin Classics), Oscar Wilde
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, Alexandra Fuller
Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?, Marion Meade
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, Barack Obama
Drinking: A Love Story, Caroline Knapp
Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography (P.S.), Zora Neale Hurston
E=mc~2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation, David Bodanis
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia, Elizabeth Gilbert
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, Alfred Lansing
Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story, Amanda Vaill
Helen Keller: The Story of My Life (Dover Thrift Editions), Helen Keller
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, Malala Yousafzai
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
Just Kids, Patti Smith
Kitchen Confidential Updated Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.), Anthony Bourdain
Knock Wood, Candice Bergen
Life, Keith Richards
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, Nelson Mandela
Meditations (Dover Thrift Editions), Marcus Aurelius
Mortality, Christopher Hitchens
My Life in France, Julia Child
Naked, David Sedaris
Napoleon: A Life, Andrew Roberts
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Dover Thrift Editions), Frederick Douglass
Night, Elie Wiesel
Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
Open: An Autobiography, Andre Agassi
Out of Africa: and Shadows on the Grass, Isak Dinesen
Personal History, Katharine Graham
Robert A. Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson Set: The Path to Power; Means of Ascent; Master of the Senate; The Passage of Power, Robert A. Caro
Running with Scissors: A Memoir, Augusten Burroughs
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Nancy Milford
Seabiscuit: An American Legend (Ballantine Reader's Circle), Laura Hillenbrand
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis, Timothy Egan
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited, Vladimir Nabokov
Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character), Richard P. Feynman
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, John Lahr
The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo, Irving Stone
The Andy Warhol Diaries, Andy Warhol
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein
The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley, Malcolm X
The Basketball Diaries, Jim Carroll
The Bell Jar (P.S.), Sylvia Plath
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (10th Anniversary Edition), James McBride
The Complete Maus, 25th Anniversary Edition, Art Spiegelman
The Complete Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934, Anais Nin
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait, Carlos Fuentes
The Glass Castle: A Memoir, Jeannette Walls
The Gulag Archipelago Abridged: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (P.S.), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
The Kid Stays in the Picture: A Notorious Life, Robert Evans
The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television, Evan I. Schwartz
The Liars' Club: A Memoir, Mary Karr
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey, Ernesto Che Guevara
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (P.S.), Simon Winchester
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Modern Library Paperbacks), Edmund Morris
The Soul of A New Machine, Tracy Kidder
The Tender Bar: A Memoir, J. R. Moehringer
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, Maxine Hong Kingston
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
This Boy's Life: A Memoir, Tobias Wolff
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., Ron Chernow
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival, Joe Simpson
Travels with Charley in Search of America, John Steinbeck
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, Laura Hillenbrand
Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy, Frances Mayes
Updike, Adam Begley
Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), Stacy Schiff
West with the Night, Beryl Markham
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, Jung Chang
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, Cheryl Strayed